On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:25:02PM -0400, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: > I'll take a crack at it. Your lilo.conf files looks a little strange to > me, especially > boot=/dev/fd0
"boot" is where the MBR gets written and in my case it's the floppy, as I want a boot disk here... [snipped your lilo.conf] > As far as I know the boot=... is where the lilo info gets written, in > my case to the MBR, in your case to a floppy Yes, that's why I put /dev/fd0 there... when running "lilo -C [that_conffile]", lilo had no problems and I saw the floppy being busy... > Anyway, boot your system from the rescue floppy, mount the root > partition, and then choose the option for making a boot disk. This How do I "choose" that? I tried things like mkboot (or similar) but that didn't help. > should put the kernel in /dev/hdb3 on the floppy. Alternatively you may > simply be able to do > cat /dev/hdb3/vmlinuz > /dev/fd0 Haven't done that... does it work for b2zip'ed kernels, too? Regards and thanks -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
